2019 GLLI Translated YA Book Prize Shortlist

The 2019 GLLI Translated YA Book Prize Committee – amazingly served by Annette Goldsmith, Gene Hayworth, Kim Rostan, Laura Simeon, and Elaine Tai – is honored to announce the 2019 inaugural shortlist. Please help us celebrate these fine translations and the publishers behind them by encouraging your teen readers to explore the world through the eyes of this amazing group of authors!

Alpha by Bessora and Barroux, translated from the French by Sara Ardizzone (Bellevue Literary Press) – FRANCE

Which of these is your favorite? Which English translations from the past three years (2015-2018) do you think should have made our list? Follow our blog for the announcement of the prize winner in two weeks’ time.

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Reblogged this on September: World Kid Lit Month and commented:
The Global Literature in Libraries Initiative has announced the ten-book shortlist for the first-ever GLLI YA in Translation prize! The books are translated from seven different languages and feature a range of different genres.

This shortlist is so wonderfully exciting! I can’t wait to read every title! You have created a shortlist that, I believe, will have readers coming back next year for more global YA recommendations. Thank you so much, for starting this tradition off in style, and for all of your hard work reading these books.